Arabesque For Farid al-Din 'Attar architects are the most convicted poets their diagram becomes our practicum they retrieve the heart its minarets & pinnacles to sanctify the bodies' residence in hypostyle & gable, mibran & muqarna - on heights to free belief from any need like the pistil-centered rays through the rose-window transform the sun into something more pure than light & the soaring angles at the sightlines of the ziggurat suggest a perpetual departure - air-without-end & spirit's in the arch, the hard vissour, rewarding calculations & finding cool spaces for the soul that breathes beneath from plane to plane, stone to stone, flute to flute, building gardens in the fire of god's vacuity & feeling the cornerstones sponsor stories of desire. so enter what you are: the horizon unseen by anyone. the sun of my perfection is glass wherein from seeing into being pass. place re-places skin; succor's bodied in a building inviting emotion to motion, moving room to room to know rapture as an enclosed & infinite transparency breathe the ease: be safe within the ziyyada. for you are on foundations even on the windy roof, where a dancer poses against the clouds & as she raises her arms into an arabesque the sky behind her falls in love with shapes again. By Tim Keane QLRS Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005_____
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